In normal-hearing ears, sound waves are amplified within the cochlea and a small fraction of the sound energy travels backward out into the ear canal, producing sounds known as "otoacoustic emissions" (OAE) that can be ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by many behavioral symptoms, including delays in social and communicative development. A cluster of symptoms concentrate on speech and language development, especially ...

Accurate sensory perception in noisy environments requires physiological mechanisms that reduce sensory interference. In the auditory system, it has been hypothesized that attentional control of cochlear responses to sound ...

Biofilms-surface-bound communities of microbes-are a major medical concern, as they can be sources of infection that are difficult to eradicate. Their formation starts with the attachment of bacteria to available surfaces-often ...

Bacterial infections continue to be a significant concern particularly in healthcare settings and in the developing world. Current challenges include the increasing spread of drug resistant (DR) organisms, the side effects ...

Proteomics has been revolutionized in the last couple of years through integration of new mass spectrometry technologies such as -Enhanced Laser Desorption/Ionization (SELDI) mass spectrometry. As data is generated in an ...

Anaphora in language is defined as an expression that refers to another expression. Hankamer & Sag 1976 and Sag & Hankamer 1984 proposed that anaphors can be divided into deep anaphors, which are resolved using a non-linguistic ...

The purpose of the research was to identify the clinical and commercial benefits of switching from intravenous (IV) to buccal delivery of antibiotics. then, the research continued to select 3-5 antibiotics that best met ...

Sarin, Pankaj, M.D. University of Rochester(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)

Recently, hospitals, regulatory agencies, and insurers have renewed their focus on improving patient care and safety. Outcomes based measures are being utilized and hospitals are being asked to report on whether patients ...

The history of private philanthropy in the US has been dominated by family foundations with arms-length philanthropy practices that largely existed in separation from commercial enterprise and business operations. This ...

Beta band (13-30 Hz) oscillations in sensorimotor cortex are associated with motor performance, but the nature of this relationship is not clear. Recently, excessive beta activity in cortico-basal ganglia circuits has been ...

Bilateral cochlear implantation seeks to restore the advantages of binaural hearing to the profoundly deaf by giving them access to binaural cues normally important for accurate sound localization and speech reception in ...

There is a pressing need in minimally-invasive surgery for novel imaging methods that can rapidly and accurately localize the surgical instrument and its target. We have developed two novel localization methods for the ...

Space-suited activity is critical for human spaceflight, and is synonymous with human planetary exploration. Space suits impose kinematic and kinetic boundary conditions that affect movement and locomotion, and in doing ...

The human tongue is a versatile, lithe and structurally complex muscular organ that is of paramount importance for many physiological tasks. The lingual musculature is composed of various orthogonally oriented myofiber ...

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a major health concern for Americans and people worldwide. Arteriogenesis, an adaptive remodeling process in which pre-existing collateral arterioles remodel to form large diameter conductance ...

Background: The commoditization of high-throughput gene expression sequencing and microarrays has led to a proliferation in both the amount of genomic and clinical data that is available. Descriptive textual information ...